Re: Ada and JVM? Why not AdaVM?

[Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>]

Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com> writes:

> Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
> > You could target one of the existing VMs.  For example, you could
> > create a GNAT backend for the Guile, Python, or Emacs virtual machine.
> > Some day, if I have plenty of time, I plan to retarget JGNAT to one of
> > these platforms.  It's certainly a lot of useless fun. ;-)
> 
> Don't forget about the Western Digital Pascal Microengine...

The Python and Emacs VMs are quite widespread and platform independent
(the Emacs VM has probably been ported to more platforms than the
JVM).  And both support loading arbitrary bytecode (AFAIK, Perl does
not), so it's really possible to adapt an Ada compiler to this
platform.

(BTW: Will Microsoft make the .NET VM specification public?  And if
they do, will they encourage third-party implementations?)